Game study

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If you get yellow paper -- press this link

Week 6

   

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts  

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Link to book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Time line assignment -- Link

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Quiz 5  Chapters 32- 47
Turn in finished comprehension packet

Friday, June 3, 2016

Time Line Assignment -- Due Friday
Finish movie

Math 

Code.org  -- Section 14 due this week:

Boolean Operators

• Use Boolean operators to compare values.
• Apply Boolean logic, such as AND, OR, and NOT, to compose complex Boolean comparisons.
• Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

Poster -- scale your walking map: take the map in your Cornell notes and enlarge 5x
Section 1: Large scale map with buildings of interest marked
Section 2: List the buildings of interest in the legend -- LINK to definition
Section 3:

• Provide your hypothesis: Older houses are built next to newer houses (example)
• Provide a possible explanation: As property values rise, properties were split. 
• Provide evidence (this could be done with evidence from Hennepin County -- LINK

Week 5

Nuthanger Farm

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts     

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Link to book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Time line assignment -- Link

Quiz 4 Tuesday Chapters 24 - 32
Quiz 5 Friday Chapters 32- 47
Done!

Math 

Code.org  -- due this week:

Conditionals
Collision Detection
Done!


Khan Academy   -- 2 hours

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

Poster -- scale your walking map: take the map in your Cornell notes and enlarge 5x
Section 1: Large scale map with buildings of interest marked
Section 2: List the buildings of interest in the legend -- LINK to definition
Section 3:

• Provide your hypothesis: Older houses are built next to newer houses (example)
• Provide a possible explanation: As property values rise, properties were split. 
• Provide evidence (this could be done with evidence from Hennepin County -- LINK

Week 4

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts     

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Link to book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Time line assignment -- Link

Quiz 3 Tuesday Chapters 16 -24
Quiz 4 Thursday Chapters 24 - 32

Math 

Code.org  -- due this week:

The Big Game
Composite Functions
Rocket Height
Boolean Operators
Solving Word Problems with Design Thinking


Khan Academy   -- 2 hours  

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

Church Architecture and History Assignment
Picture taking - Upload pics to Google Slides -- Research Property -- Create Questions -- Create Poster

Week 3

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts     

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Link to book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Time line assignment -- Link

Math 

Code.org
Khan Academy   -- 2 hours a week  
Lightbot Variables Assignment -- Link

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

Church Architecture and History Assignment

Week 2

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts     

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Linkto book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Time line assignment -- Link

Math 

Making Games with Computer Science and Algebra  -- Sign up as a class member

Grade 7 -- Link
Grade 8 -- Link
Khan Academy        
Lightbot -- Link
Lightbot Variables Assignment -- Link

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

World History -- Guns, Germs, and Steel

Episode 1 -- Link

Episode 1 Assignment

This lesson explores, in depth, the theory of "geographic luck" outlined in detail in Episode One. Learning the basics about Jared Diamond's theory, you will explore how the location, natural resources, and the native species and climate provided in certain geographic regions led these civilizations to become more profitable, stronger, and more powerful than others around them.

You will learn about the importance of cultivating specific crops and the domestication of certain animals species and how these two advances led to significant advantages that advanced technology and built significant wealth and power in the world. 

Episode 2 -- Link

Episode 3 -- Link 

Notemaking

Week 1 JPP2 April

Overview of the Week 

Language Arts     

Book for study -- Watership Down -- Link to book
Study Packet for Watership Down -- Link to packet

Math 

Making Games with Computer Science and Algebra  -- Sign up as a class member

Grade 7 -- Link
Grade 8 -- Link
Khan Academy          
Lightbot -- Link
Lightbot Variables Assignment -- Link

Silent Reading    

Five points a session:

• Bring your own book

Social Studies

Crash Course! Link

Notemaking

Cornell notes --Link

Ice Breaker -- June 25th

You have been selected to travel the world. Before you go, you can have a special party to invite six people to join you. 

1. Copy the image above, and fill in the place cards with the names of six special people you would like to join you on your travels. 
2. After writing in their names on the place cards, list three personality traits that make them special to you. There is a list of personality suggestions below.
3. Go through the traits you listed for each person. Below your table, list the most common traits as a top 3. 
4. Go to each student in your class, write their name on your paper, and list their top 3.
5. Report
   

Week of March 14 to 19

Big ideas for the week:

• Math: Finish through Stage 12 at Code.org -- word problems
• English 7: Book 6 The Odyssey 
• English 8: Hand in One-Hour-Essay --learn to structure and write an essay test

Monday 14

Math -- Stage 9 at Code.org  -- Use the Design Recipe to identify dependent variables, independent variables, and constants.

Standard: 

F.BF.1: Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.

For the Student

English 7 -- Book 3 The Odyssey

Text of Book for Reading -- Link

Audio Book for Listening -- Link

Movie for Home viewing -- Link

English 8  -- Outlining

Packet for prewriting and outlining -- Link

Tuesday 15

Math -- Stage 10 - Rocket Height

Students will: Design functions to solve word problems.

Common Core Math Standards

 F.LE.1: Distinguish between situations that can be modeled with linear functions and with exponential functions.

English 7 -- Book 4 The Odyssey

Text of Book for Reading -- Link

Audio Book for Listening -- Link

Movie for Home viewing -- Link

English 8  -- Rough Draft

Packet for prewriting and outlining -- Link

Wednesday 16

Math -- Start Stage 11-- Design functions to solve word problems.

Students will: Continue to practice writing contracts with more complex scenarios.

Common Core Math Standards:

F.BF.1: Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.

English 7 -- Book 5 The Odyssey 

Text of Book for Reading -- Link

Audio Book for Listening -- Link

Movie for Home viewing -- Link

English 8 -- Peer Review due at end of hour

Peer Review Form -- Link

Thursday 17

Math -- Start Stage 12 -- Use the Design Recipe to develop functions that animate the target and danger sprites in their games.

The student will: Design functions to solve word problems.

Common Core Math Standards:

F.LE.2: Construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).

English 7 -- Book 6 The Odyssey

Text of Book for Reading -- Link

Audio Book for Listening -- Link

Movie for Home viewing -- Link

English 8 -- Respond to peer review, write final draft

Friday 18

Math -- Stage 13 Boolean Operators-- Using Boolean operators, students will write code that compares values to make logical decisions.

English 7 -- Reading Friday

English 8 -- Reading Friday -- Final Draft Due